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    1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 19
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      Every time I say this, "both sides" freak out but it doesn't make it any less true: Liberals and leftists who fixate endlessly on an exaggerated threat of "Nazis" are the mirror image of right-wingers who fixate endlessly on the exaggerated threat of "Radical Islamic Terror"

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      Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 19
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      Yeah, I'm aware that one person died in Charlottesville in August 2017. Two months later, eight people died in Manhattan as a result of a "radical Islamic terror" attack. Inflating the threat posed by EITHER phenomenon because it flatters your sense of moral grandiosity is inane

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        2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 19
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          And again, clearly radical Islamism is a serious threat in places like Syria, and the same can be said for Nazis in Ukraine. But what happens in the US, at a time of unprecedented society-wide safety, is that moralizing political actors inflate threats when it suits their agenda

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        3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 19
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          What always happens is that the threats are then used as justification for overzealous legislative and law enforcement action, which threatens civil liberties (and more recently gets invoked to censor the internet.) That's the pattern, and I don't care if noting it makes you mad

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        4. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 19
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          Michael Tracey Retweeted Matt Stoller

          As the cryptographer Bruce Schneier often observes: "The risk of dying in the US from terrorism is substantially less than the risk of drowning in your bathtub, the risk of a home appliance killing you, or the risk of dying in an accident caused by a deer"https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1130100249878499328 …

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          115 people die a day from opioid overdoses. Whatever you think of claims from the right or left about threats, I see no interest in framing mass murder by the billionaire Sackler family with anywhere near the same heat as either side's political opposition. https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1130096582257512448 …
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        5. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 19
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          Yet somehow, these relatively minor threats -- because they're salacious and provoke wide-ranging culture war fury -- always seem to attract dramatically greater attention than the threat posed by: the military-industrial complex, the financial industry, corrupt cops, Big Pharma

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        2. R 💀b‏Verified account @robrousseau May 19
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          so the multiple mass shootings in synagogues and mosques that have happened since then just don't factor into your analysis of this whatsoever?

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        3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 19
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          Are you aware of the multiple mass shootings and attacks carried out by "radical Islamic terrorists" in the past few years? No, unlike you presumably, I don't think those isolated attacks ought to be extrapolated into an exaggerated, all-consuming "threat"

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        1. Scott 🌻 🏴‏ @snoogles9000 May 19
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          That would be true in a vacuum, but we don't live in a vacuum, we live in a world where the United States, the most powerful entity in history, has spent trillions of dollars and killed a million people in the name of combating "radical Islamic terror"

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        1. Cain‏ @RazenCain May 19
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          Started following you after your fantastic Papadopoulos interview. It’s hard to reconcile that stellar work with some of the asinine, almost incoherent, takes you throw at the wall on Twitter.

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        1. Timothy Brooks‏ @Tim__Brooks May 19
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          In middle school I knew a fat kid that sat at his computer and drank Mt Dew all the time. His house smelled like piss because they never bothered training or cleaning up after their pets. He thought he was smart. Anyway, you remind me of him.

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        1. i̶n̶f̶o̶b̶l̶i̶n̶d̶‏ @infoblind May 19
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          Power doesn’t exist, no such thing, only statistics

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        1. jacques ciroc‏ @colddayonmars May 19
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          this libertarian thing is really good and makes a lot of sense. can you redo this thread in video form, sitting behind the wheel of your car?

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        1. Dog guy‏ @Catsorange1 May 19
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          I think the responses in this thread reify the point. Well done.

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          pic.twitter.com/k547LZ6XiX

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        1. Maximum Cherry‏ @sammythemc May 19
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          Apologist

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        1. Slava Zilber‏ @v_zilber May 19
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          https://soundcloud.com/conversationswithslava/charlottesville-august-12-2017 …

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        1. VACUOUS CIPHER‏ @THE_DAILY_BLEAT May 19
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          Yes, you'll always have that "one".pic.twitter.com/aUPEugSgPc

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        1. Alaine‏ @LoyolaTrue May 19
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          ...and Charlottesville was a FF. You're an investigative journalist, right. Start looking. Bubbles are meant to be popped.

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          https://www.csis.org/analysis/rise-far-right-extremism-united-states …

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        2. Daniel Baryon‏ @apeirophobic May 19
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          Are you under the sober-minded impression that the extent of white nationalist violence was Charlottesville? Are you, a person whose job is to stay informed about modern events, completely unaware of the repeated white nationalist massacres taking place? Mindboggling.

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        3. pam scrambler‏ @frightendinmate May 19
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          people have been telling him about these other massacres repeatedly. he’s deliberately minimizing it.

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